yum / not yum

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 15:48 +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> I am making (actually made) an install package to install a PPTP VPN.
> It does the following:
> 
>         1:   rpm -Uvh  dkms-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm
>         kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5-2dkms.noarch.rpm
>         libglade-0.17-14.i386.rpm    libxml-1.8.17-6.i386.rpm
>         
>         2:   rpm -Uvh
>         http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
>         
>         3:   yum --enablerepo=pptp-stable install pptpconfig
>         
> The RPMs in number 1 are in my package, and I suppose I can locate 2
> (pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm) and get a local
> copy.
> 
> But if I want to make it so Internet is not needed to install this I
> have to find a way to do #3 locally (get files and
> place in my installation package rather than use yum).  I also have to
> find pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm.
> 
> Any ideas on 2 and 3 so I can make a package not requiring internet
> (nor yum)?

Download the packages and use "yum localinstall <package1>
<package2>" (maybe disable the default repos so it doesn't try to check
them on the net), or just use rpm if you're sure there are no dependency
issues.

poc